LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — Today, it's a nearly untouched portion of New Jersey, but it could have been filled with houses, lagoons, businesses and the constant hum of human activity during the summer. Narrow Great Bay Boulevard, also known as Seven Bridges Road,...
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How public libraries help people find jobs
Public libraries across the country do more than lend books. They’re a community lifeline, providing dozens of social services to the public, including disaster assistance, telehealth access, tutoring and job guidance. Every state in the country has libraries that...
In NJ, progressives mobilize against ‘right-wing extremism’ on sex ed, LGBTQ school policies
Some of New Jersey’s most powerful political fundraisers and an increasingly organized wave of progressive parents and activists are working to defend the state’s controversial sex education standards, LGBTQ-centric curricula and diversity initiatives they say...
Many Young Voters Bitter Over Biden’s Support of Willow Oil Drilling
WASHINGTON — In the past three weeks, President Biden’s administration has proposed regulations to speed the transition to electric vehicles, committed $1 billion to help poor countries fight climate change and prepared what could be the first limits on greenhouse gas...
Stamato Commentary for National Library Week: Books should be celebrated, not banned
By Linda Stamato Across the nation, folks are using the power of the state to limit access to books, pressuring libraries to take books out of circulation. Indeed, removing books from libraries has nearly doubled since 2021! And school boards continue to face demands...
Barchi’s Foundations of Medical Ethics and Policy course is “a fantastic interdisciplinary learning experience.”
We find ourselves again amid course registration season — some already have their classes picked out, while others are still scrambling on Course Schedule Planner. Whether you're registering for your first or final semester, Rutgers offers an endless selection of...
The Race to Decarbonize America Needs More Workers
THE UNITED STATES doesn’t lack the technology to head off climate catastrophe—it lacks enough trained workers to install it fast enough. The Inflation Reduction Act, passed last summer, allocates $370 billion toward energy security and climate action....
Shapiro Named 2023 ROI Influencer, Deans, Directors & Officials
Campuses are nice – so is school spirit. But the most important aspect of any college campus is the programs and the professors. From law schools to med schools to business schools – to anything having to do with STEM education – New Jersey has it covered. Here are...
Prisoners of Their Own Device
HOWEVER ESSENTIAL TO THE CRAFT OF LEGISLATION, projecting policy outcomes is a notoriously fraught human enterprise. As the authors of a leading graduate-school textbook on the subject bluntly assert, “even veteran policy analysts do not do it very well” and many...
Six Ways Existing Economic Models Are Killing the Economy
Americans have been hammered for decades with an economic message that amounts to this: When wealthy people like me gain even more wealth through tax cuts, deregulation, and policies that keep wages low, that leads to economic growth and benefits for everyone else in...